ch;" "Rage, Forage;" "Barber, Barbarism," &c.

=LighterMAN.= } In. by S.
=Lord MANsfield.= }

Here the word or syllable "man" appears in both cases. In the former it
signifies the man that manages a Lighter, and in the latter it was
primitively connected with Field, as "A Man's Field." After a time it
became Mansfield. It is a perfect case of In. by S. and s. Other cases:
"Tempest, Temperature;" "Antepenult, Antediluvians."

=Lord MansFIELD.= } In. by S. & s.
=FIELDhand.= }

As "Field" belongs to both words, it is a case of perfect In. by S. and
s. Other cases: "Regiment, Compliment;" "Sell, Selfish;"
"Miniature, Mint," &c.

Now let the pupil read over very thoughtfully the ten words just
examined, and _recall_ the _relation_ which we found to exist between
every pair of them.

Building.
Dwelling.
House.
Parlor.
Partridge.
Feathers.
Light.
Lighterman.
Lord Mansfield.
Fieldhand.

Having finished the reading, let the pupil close the lesson, or put it
out of sight and endeavour to recall the ten words from Building to
Fieldhand from memory. He will find no difficulty in doing so. He
learned the series by heart without any suspicion that he was committing
it to memory.

Now let him realise how he did this. It was because he made use of the
cementing Laws of the Memory. He sought out and found the relations
between the words. By _thinking_ of those relations, he _exercised_ his
intellect on those words in a double way--the _meaning_ and the _sound_
of the words were considered and then the _similarities_ of meaning and
of sound were noticed. A vivid _First Impression_ was thus received from
the words themselves and from the relations between them and an easy and
certain recall thereby assured.

Now _recall_ the series in an inverse order, beginning with "Fieldhand,"
and going back to "Building." You do it easily, because each word was
cemented to its predecessor and its successor, and hence it makes no
difference whether you go forward or backward. When, however, you learn
by _rote_ you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse
way. Before proceeding, repeat the ten words from memory, from
"Building" to "Fieldhand," and the reverse way, at least five times;
each time, if possible, more rapidly than before. These repetitions are
not to _learn_ the series; for this has been done already, but it is to
consolidate the effect of lea